Zeno Clash

O jogo é bem legal, porém o combate me incomodou um pouco especialmente contra inimigos grandes ou quando aparecem vários ao mesmo tempo, o boss final é um pouco desbalanceado. O estilo de arte é tão esquisito quanto a história, mas não vejo isso como pontos negativo.

One of the weirdest games I've ever played. 10/10 would recommend.

A great game, interesting story line. I am a little bit sad that the second game "Zeno Clash 2" doesn't live up to the original, mostly because it includes a lot of new concepts, such as a skill tree for advancements etc. Hoping to see more from the Devs in the future. Zeno Clash 3 would be cool, if it keeps its gameplay as close as possible to the original version.

It's good

An honest review;

Zeno Clash offers a lot for the short time it took to finish. The graphics are nostalgic and the gameplay itself was addicting, especially for someone who doesn't play fighter games like that. The voice-acting was mid at best and had moments that had me cringe, but overall didn't ruin the experience. My favorite part of the game was the character design. Walking around the open parts of the game showed just how much depth the developers had for the game and I can't wait to get my hands on the second one.

The other negative review for this game outlines my experience quite perfectly. I don't think this game is very good. It feels like running through gelatin.

Old but gas!

short and weird, play while high for a better experience

this game is so weird and fun i would recommend this to any scizophrenic meth head

Don't think twice, you'll enjoy this game.

Xavier: Renegade Angel - The Game (2009)

Good game, cool story. But only had a few hours of gameplay

What is this game? A cool beat them up, I bought it because I played it as a smelly kid and sort it stuck with me and when I found out it was on steam I bought it to see what was this game was about

Mother-father oh oh ciupapi

Zeno Clash drops you into a world as bizarre, alien, and lovingly uncomfortable as Elder Scrolls: Morrowind. Absolutely worth a few bucks on sale to dive into what 2009 gaming was like for 5 hours.

One of the first games I ever 'no-no downloaded' as a child. Glad to buy it for real and play it on modern hardware. The universe is so strange and conceptually holds up. A very dated game but still quite enjoyable.

2009 GOATy

OMFG LMFAO lololol

this game served father-mother

I love its world, i hate its gameplay.

VERY strange game. In core - its a simple brawler where all in game-loot consists of moving around very small locations, and fighting with single or multiple opponents. Alongside to hand-to-hand combat with dodge, parry, block, fast kick, strong kick and grab (when the opponents is dizzy), you can use some sort of grenades and ranged weapons, but with dynamic and genre of the game they are more of an icing on a cake. Years ago i played the chronicles of Riddick and some of my friends said that the brawling is very similar, but its basically the whole game. The plot is very simple and can be described in 1 10 word sentence without missing the details. But after completing the game and going to challenges, where process was distilled and the plot was removed - it finaly clicked.

Positives:
+ the bizzare and unique style and design of locations and characters, you wont find something similar anywhere else
+ the combat system is good, simple to understand and dynamic

Meh:
~ music
~ duration of the main story (3-5 hours)

Negatives:

- the plot. Its short, the worldbuilding itself it seems to me was done after designing the characters - like man - you dont get many explanations or еxposition
- the game loop. I guess my view is very affected by the Chronicles of Riddick, but i cant get away from a thought that basically this game only provides 1v1-2-3-4-5 enemies in very very small arenas. I was heavily disappointed that I can't check out the world itself, to interact with its inhabitants and learn more about it. Hope the 2nd game would fix/help me with at least some of those wishes

Borderline recommended. You can try it on discount just to check out those visuals, that seem to run off the Salvador Dali paintings and if you like the genre itself, otherwise - stay away.

This game holds a special place in my heart for me. It is quite an emotional experience, albeit a short one. In some aspects it is better than Zeno Clash 2.

I'm pretty amazed by the positive ratio of reviews here, this game has a few pieces of combat that are fun here and there but the overall experience is terrible and sluggish. The game is borderline unplayable without modifying because the mouse issues and the awful camera sway/FOV make it an eyesore to even play. I shouldn't have to become a modder just to be able to play your game, and unfortunately even if I did mod it there's not enough here to be interesting. The models for the mutants in the game are off putting and rather than creative just terrible to look at, there doesn't seem to be a lot of artistic cohesion.

For a game that is mostly a brawler/fighting game the controls are TERRIBLE, sluggish and slow, with heavy enemies that will knock you down constantly, and enemies using ranged weapons on you while you're trying to do melee combos. Fighting feels like a chore instead of feeling like a badass and the whole thing is so slow and sluggish that parrying/using weapons doesn't feel right and is very unresponsive.

The levels get frustrating and less fun as the game goes along, I got about halfway through the game and now have run into a progression blocking glitch in a skeleton throne room and I genuinely don't care enough to try to fix it. Dev said in a post starting new game and booting the chapter should fix the issue and if it doesn't go into the files and do x and y, if I have to mod your game files just to actually play through it it better be a lot less mediocre than this.

Skip this game there are so many better more interesting brawling/fighting games, even Breakdown on the original Xbox though floaty felt more satisfying than this, it really is a bad sluggish experience, rough to look at with just BAD combat for this kind of game. Also I should have already earned an achievement for catching 30 fireballs and the game just doesn't seem to be registering my catches anymore, done with this half baked glitchy product.

I think about this game a lot. It's got such an interesting art style and atmosphere with an equally strange story and premise. It is brought down by what is only serviceable and somewhat repetitive gameplay, except the game isn't long enough for this problem to really set in as it just doesn't overstay its welcome. At a certain point with the game as well it starts going to locations and has unique events occur that end up making the game feel like legend of zelda majoras mask had a baby with prey 2006. It was only for a short moment and it's a bit of a shame to me that something as captivating as this small section was lost to being nothing more than a small part of this game. It's enough to make me wonder what the people behind this could create if they ever felt like dedicating themselves to creating something that was holistically of the corner of their influence that I saw.

also side note: I don't know why but half of the creatures are weird and gross but the other half I find intriguing in a way where they seem kinda hot. It's not important but I wanted to include this as a side note for fun.

This is the kind of lore and characters that i would make when i was 10

Solid brawler in a Quirky setting - short and sour.

Constant crashing after levels, so I had to unlock levels via console commands.

The game is great, you should try it.
Awesome style and sound, nice and funny fighting mechanic.
Abolutely worth its price. Also, Kenshi vibes.

Weird game, fun art style, unique combat

Zeno Clash is a relic, a fascinatingly ugly experiment in first-person brawling wrapped in dated Source engine tech. Its surreal aesthetic and brutal combat offer a jarring departure from convention. Yet, it exists now mostly as a curiosity, a node in Steam's network designed to funnel you towards bundle purchases. Play it to experience the weirdness, but recognize it as digital taxidermy – interesting to look at, fundamentally dead, and propped up by a system that values your engagement far more than your experience. A monument to creative ambition constrained by technical decay.

solid but beware its really buggy

Super old Source engine game that still holds up pretty well. If you like exploring cultures and weird people more than exploring levels, this game has a lot to offer you to this day. The levels are either arenas or totally linear. Gameplay is still mostly fine. The guns all kind of suck, and the camera is awkward to move while locked on in melee. The story is minimal, the universe is maximal.

Zeno clash

I was enjoying it until it keeps crashing on a loading screen.
Tried couple of times but it keeps doing it on that particular loading screen.
Keep saying cmdlcache: Out of memory.
Can't find any fix.

Yes

Its just so unbelievably bizarre, I love it.

If you like first person games, especially ones with melee combat you'll enjoy it.

It has aged like fine wine. Such a fantastic and visceral game with art and character design that is out of this world. The story mode is brilliant and entertaining to from start to finish and then there is the challenge tower that has extremely fun as well as hard levels to conquer.

My only nitpick is that at the beginning of levels you get this really bad stuttering which goes away after a few seconds but it is very jarring when it happens every time you load into a new level.

Tl:dr This classic is still a heck lot of fun. The hand-to-hand combat holds up extremely well. There's also the amazing art, story and characters. This game is a whole vibe in itself. A surreal masterpiece.

I have to admit the melee is very intriguing from a source engine game but man the best way to describe the game is WTF?

fun short game

it was experimental

This game is mental. It took me some years to be in the mood for this craziness, but once you are in the mood it's perfect

Extremely short and mediocre as a game. However, If you enjoy the source engine, this will certainly interest you. I would probably buy it on special though.

Zeno Clash is an action/fighting game set in a punk fantasy world. The game is played from a first person perspective and the combat is generally up close and brutal.
Experience a deep storyline set in a fantastic world full of bizarre creatures and characters.
All the game is very immersive and have a average/hard difficulty. You really need to learn to fight against bosses e other creatures among the game.
I honestly recomend this game, it took me less than 6 hours to finish but it was totally worth it.

Wonderful game, playing it in 2025. i completed the campaign 3 times in a few weeks, largely motivated by getting my head around its well respected first person melee system, but I love the style and world too. The game is a unique blend of brawler, trippy art, music, narrative, and world building that doesnt overstay its welcome.

It holds up well as an indie title now, its still unique, and its kinda stunning this was made by a tiny team in 2009.

I decided to play this first-person beat 'em up again with my brother, years after having experienced it via Xbox Live. And it's a great experience still, holding up far better for me than the likes of Braid and Limbo. That's strange, since 2D was and is easier to make immediately playable on a smaller dev budget. Now, there is a little jank in this, as you would expect to find in a 3D indie game made before there was even a real 2D indie boom -- but not nearly as much as I feared. The wild bio-punk style comes through as strong as ever without RTX/SSAO/8K textures/DLSS and whatever all the rest of the game-delaying, budget-bloating nonsense is -- and I found myself getting sucked right back in to the wacky world of Zenozoik after knocking about an even jankier and much less interesting reality for a decade-plus.

Such jank as you might experience is all baked into the game engine, primarily in the slight sense of delay and the queuing you get with the melee inputs. Ghat's main fisty combo, for instance, is set off by holding the button down until it is complete, with the other button for hard attacks. It's polished enough that you can definitely get good at it, but sometimes the delay will make you feel like a madman flailing with rage when you're in the thick of a big battle. It kind of works in a thematic sense, really, when you consider the savage world you're in. Some people complain about the gun combat too, but I think it works well enough; Ghat and his big extended family mostly fight with feet and fists, and since these biopunk guns, all made of bone, stone, and sinew, take work to reload and aim, of course they might feel a trifle more awkward than those in a legit FPS. I know it sounds like trying to wallpaper flaws with an imagined meta-connection between story and gameplay, but it's seriously fine and feels good when you're actually playing and soaking up all the vibes.

Back in the 2009 of its original release, a lot of people played this because there weren't a lot of options -- it just so happened to be a very good, very memorable game despite the widespread attention it incidentally received. Nowadays, it will appeal more to the PC indie crowd I think. It's short, engrossing, and costs as much as a sachet of corn nuts when it's on sale, so why not throw it on the ol' wishlist?

Incredible visual and sound design. Amateur voice acting but it gets better in the sequels. Never thought I would see a Source engine fighting game. Go buy this for a surreal experience.

The gameplay largely consists of first person brawls that are just fun to play through. The setting and story and characters are all very, very weird, so if you enjoy the bizarre or like unique settings then you absolutely should play this at least once.

The vibes are trippy but the gameplay is too janky in this day and age. There's a reason they switched to 3rd person and got rid of guns in Clash: Artifacts of Chaos.

The gunplay flat out isn't fun when I just want to punch people. The punching isn't much fun when there isn't enough field of vision to keep track of every enemy, and they keep shooting from off-screen. Also, the hitboxes are really wonky. Lots of times it looked like I booted the head, just for it to not to register.

15 years later and still one of the best brawlers ever made. Combat is weighty and brutal, in a setting that is charmingly bizarre while remaining cohesive and interesting.

Great gameplay with incredible aesthetic and character design

Goated game, very much underrated, I felt like jackie-chan while playing it.

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The game of all time. Buy